Why we ride...

[MissTwisties]

Article featured on MSN today:

Why We Ride: The Joy of Motorcycling - MSN Autos

Also, following the discussion in the thread about people socializing "too much" on here...read the last part of the article: Message boards...

[Omahastylin16]

hmm, i always thought that guys ride to pick up girls and girls ride to get attention from guys

[ThisBitch]

hmm, i always thought that guys ride to pick up girls and girls ride to get attention from guys

The guys that ride in tank tops to show off their tats and the girls that ride in pink from head to toe, cause god forbid guys don't notice they're a chick, certainly do

But from my experience, those people spend more time sitting at stoplights while riding 20mph through town than actually riding

[Pittenger5]

I ride to get chicks. Im just not very good at it

[spicy]

I ride to get chicks. Im just not very good at it

...the riding or the getting chicks?

[Pittenger5]

Yes

[Brit-Triple]

Last year, for a short period of time, I road a motorcycle for the first time. When I tell other people about it, those-like myself- who love to drive cars, I tell them that even if you get to a professional level in a car, you are still doing 2 dimensional driving. Riding a motorcycle is 3 dimensional and nothing else I have done compares to it. You can ride a bicycle (mt bike, road bike) but it isn't the same, there is so much of your own skill that goes into it. I am barely grasping it now, and I find myself reading articles and books about it, reading people's descriptions of tracks and what they have done there. An inundation of anything I can get my hands on.

so many people thumb their nose at it, they say how dangerous it is and let that fear keep them from partaking and crusaderishly wipe out other's aspirations. They are the ones who almost kill us on a daily basis driving with their heads rectally inserted. The sport wouldn't be so dangerous if these people paid attention.

I know there is a book call zen and the motorcycle, I have not read it but I know that my rides can get me into a hyper aware state where you don't focus on one thing but you are taking in as quickly as you can all that is around you, ears listening to motor rpm's, eye's looking to where you want to go and still peripherally watching your surroundings. Sometimes taking old roads a little bit faster, or new ones more conservatively. All the time being in the moment, no cell phones, crying babies, or work to get done to cloud thought. This is why I like riding so much, why I will try to get myself better at it at my own pace and why I will wholeheartedly tell anyone thinking about doing it to give it a try.

[Jaynnus]

This reminds me of something I wrote several years ago...

It is in my much neglected blog

Ramblings: January 2005